Buffing-machine.



PATENTED JAN. is, 1903.

J. A, PINE. BUFFING MACHINE;

APPLIGATION FILED OUT. 2, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

NITED Smarts PATENT Urrrcn.

JOSEPH A. PINE, OE MARLBOBO, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUFFlNG-MACHINE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,155, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed October 2, 1902. Serial No.125,629. 1N0 model.)

To ctZZ whom, it nut/y concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. PINE, ofMarl' boro, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massaohusetts,have in vented certainnew and useful Improvements in Buffing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in boot and shoe buffing machines of the type illustrated in United States Patent to Webster, No. 490,419, granted January 2 1, 1893.

The object of the present invention is to simplify the construction of machines of this character and to render the parts thereof more compact and more accessible in use.

A further object of the invention is to provide a machine having a single exhaust-flue for taking away abraded or buffed particles from both the brush and the rotary buifer.

To these ends the invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a machine embodying the improvements hereinafter described. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of the same.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in both the figures.

In the said drawings a suitable standard is provided, such as that shown at 5. To the top of said standard is bolted the fan-casing 6, containing a rotary fan of any type. From said casing 6 an outlet-trunk leads, as indicated at 7.

Bolted to one side of the fan-casing 6 is a bracket 8, having the bearings for the shaft of the fan, said shaft being shown as provided with a pulley 9, driven by abelt 10,

leading from a pulley 1,1, the latter being seed in the walls of the fan-casing and outside of the latter is provided with a pulley 18,

driven by a belt 19, leading from a pulley 20, secured to the shaft 12.

The upper portion of the brush-casing is formed with an extension constituting a flue 21, having its somewhat-contracted and laterally-elongated mou th opposite and adjacent to the buffer, hereinafter described. Above the mouth of the line 21 a lip 22 projects to partially overhang the buffer, so that the periphery of the latter extends under said lip.

Supported directly by the forward end of the flue 21 is a bracket 23, in a suitable bearing of which a stud of a yoke 21 is adj ustably secured. Said yoke carries the bearings of a shaft 25, the lower end of which is provided with a buffing-pad 26, which may be of any preferred type so far as the present invention is concerned. A pulley 27 on the shaft is connected by a belt 28 with a pulley (not shown) on the shaft 12, said belt passing over idler-pulleys 29, carried by a bracket 30, said bracket 30 being supported by the upper portion of the brush-casing 15.

By comparing the two figures of the drawings it will be observed that the brush-casing has but a short passage leading to the axial center of the fancasing. Communication between the two casings is afforded at this point, so that the exhaust from the brush casing and the fine 21 is drawn into the center of the fan-casing and delivered from the periphery 0f the latter through the trunk, (indicated at 7 I find in practice that this provides for a better exhaust than where the inlet to the fan-casing communicates withthe peripheral portion of the latter and permits of a compact arrangement of the fan, brush, and flue casings, so that said casings'are capable of supporting the brackets S, 13, 23, and 30 without the employment of additional framework or standards.

I claim 1. A machine of the character described, comprising a rotary brush, acasing therefor, means for exhaustingair from said casing, a rotary buffer, and'a flue having its mouth adjacent to the buffer and communicating with the brush-casing, the mouth of said flue having a forwardly-projecting lip overhanging the periphery of the buffer.

2. A machine of the character described,

comprising a fan-casing, a brush, a brushcasingr communicating with the central portion of the fan-casing, a flue communicating with the peripheral portion of the brush-casing, and a buffer adjacent to the mouth of the flue and supported by the outer part thereof.

3. A machine of the character described, comprising a fan-casing, a brush-casing connected to and supported by one side thereof and having a flue communicating With its peripheral portion, brackets supported by said brush-casing and the outer end of the flue, a buffer supported by the flue-bracket, idlers carried by the brush-casing bracket, and a belt for rotating the buffer and leading over said idlers.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses;

JOSEPH A. PINE.

Witnesses:

MARY A. OoLLINs, JAMES F. MURPHY. 

